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Walker Kong
12+ albums
indiepower popMinnesotaindie poptwee
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Over the last seven years, Minneapolis-based pop group Walker Kong has been on a mission to pour silver icing over a raw collection of mega-hits. Their latest album, Deliver Us from People, brilliantly captures the band's live shambolic glory while continuing to integrate the highly reflective sound present on their two previous full-lengths. Exploring the relationship between animals and humans in modern times, Deliver Us from People is nothing less than a rave-up brimming with eternal love, fatal sacrifice, and the wonderful tragedy of symbiosis. Formed in the spring of 1998 they were originally known as Walker Kong and the Dangermakers. The group had high ambitions even though the only trained musician was songwriter Jeremy Ackerman. The rest of the group: Emily Cahill on drums, Alex Ackerman on bass, Sara Vargas on keyboards and Katie Kanwischer on percussion were for some odd reason very willing to make this experiment a serious endeavor. Sometimes practicing 5 times a week, the band slowly built up the nerve to record their first lp entitled the early years, which despite it1s lack of technical luster some how put them on the map in their hometown of Minneapolis. Two successful ep's followed that highlight the bands progression from naive pop status to genre splitting song crafters. Those ep's won the band a number of awards from local newspapers including best pop group as well as holding a string of #1 hits on kuom 770 (University of Minnesota College Radio). Throu
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Deliver Us From People
Transparent Life
There Goes the Sun
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VA - The Pains Of Being Lost (A Take The Pills! Compilation)
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Musikresan 106
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MPR: The Current Song of the Day
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Phazes of Light
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The Current Song of the Day - Minnesota Public Radio
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Loud Is The New Quiet Vol.7
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Beikoku Ongaku #18 Summery Molotov
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Uncapped: Magic Marker Records 10 Years Later
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Distant Lovers On Listening Stations